China spends billions of dollars every year to ensure that it is positively perceived in the international community. But if the latest data from Pew Research is any indication, all those billions are going to waste in the U.S. since…

With China’s repressive policies against the Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang getting labeled as state-sanctioned racism, Zhao Lijian, the deputy chief of mission for the Chinese embassy in Pakistan, wanted to counter this through his Twitter account. But instead of providing…

In a bid to economically intimidate Taiwan, China has canceled a program that allowed people from 47 cities to travel as individual tourists to the island nation. The ban came into effect on August 1, 2019.

Exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui has made it his mission to expose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Guo fled China in 2015 and began exposing corrupt secrets of high-level Communist Party members — past and present — in 2017. Earlier, he’d made…

The government of Australia has started looking deeply at the relationship between Australian universities and Confucius Institutes. Many of the universities have apparently entered into an agreement under which Beijing has the primary authority over many aspects of teaching.

In Confucius Institutes, a job as a teacher of Chinese culture not only requires knowledge about the subject, but also love for the “motherland.” The rule was first issued in 2016 by the Confucius Institute headquarters in Beijing and has…

The construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Kenya started off with much enthusiasm. A project funded primarily by Beijing, the SGR now remains incomplete, as the Chinese government is withholding funds needed to finish the project.

Prime Minister Antti Rinne of Finland has warned that European values are being threatened due to dismal economic growth, which is leading to the spread of extremism and populism. He was speaking at the European Parliament.

With China’s repressive policies against the Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang getting labeled as state-sanctioned racism, Zhao Lijian, the deputy chief of mission for the Chinese embassy in Pakistan, wanted to…

The government of Australia has started looking deeply at the relationship between Australian universities and Confucius Institutes. Many of the universities have apparently entered into an agreement under which Beijing…

Zuzana Čaputová, the President of Slovakia, has recently criticized China for suppressing free speech and religious faiths in the country. Sworn in last month, 45-year-old Čaputová is the first female to…

After Hongkongers turned violent during a mass protest against the government’s extradition bill, some citizens are asking that the demonstrators stick to non-violent means to achieve their aim. A separate…

After the Chinese communists ousted Chiang Kai-shek’s National Government, Ambassador Stuart returned to the U.S. where he visited U.S. Senators and encouraged them to advise the Truman administration to help…

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